White supremacists and counter protesters clash in Charlottesville

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The majority of Confederate soldiers did not own slaves nor did they come from a family that owned slaves.  Most of them fought because their home state was invaded.  Studies of surviving Confederate soldier diaries find slavery rarely mentioned.  Hatred toward invading "Yankees" was much more common.

This is part of the turning the Civil War into a comic book thing I was talking about.  Some did fight for slavery, but most did not.

So you're honestly saying that most of those who fought for the south were absolutely against slavery, but as much as they were against slavery, they were even more against those no good rotten god damned assholes from the North who had the nerve to come to their state in an effort to end the slavery they were actually against in the first place. Is that what you're saying? Because that sure sounds like that's what you're saying.

I sure didn't read that.

No doubt many Rebs fought to preserve the order that encouraged and held in law the fact of slavery. No doubt others fought because Gramps got burnt out of hearth and home. Still others enlisted for adventure (like so many GIs nowadays).

The cause they defended, whatever their personal reasons, was and is obnoxious. But you're replying to a specific post, and trying to strawman him with an excluded middle.

It'd be nice if the world were that cut-and-dried, but anyone who's been around knows it ain't necessarily so.